for those of you expecting to see "60 minutes," you're watching the nfl on cbs, the game between the browns and broncos. ian eagle along with dan fouts. denver 31, cleveland 12. "60 minutes" will be seen immediately after the game except on the west coast where it will be seen at its regularly scheduled time. second and 1. knowshon moreno! goes down awkwardly. dreessen and willis, good blocks downfield. dan: he really did go down awkwardly. he wanted to cut back to the inside and did not want to go out of bounds. ian: it's a 19-yard gain. dan: wow, look at that right knee that right ankle there. what a disaster that might have

been with willis mcgahee already out. ian: mcgahee on i.r. with a flee injury. moreno, 79 yards on the ground. we asked him about learning from veterans. he not only mentioned mcgahee but mentioned koetter, the foreman colt. ronnie hillman and he drives inside the 25. hit by joe haden. a five-yard pickup. cleveland has used its final time-out. 3:27 to go in the fourth. so the browns will fall to 5-10 on the season. don't forget, "60 minutes" is coming up here on cbs after our telecast except on the west coast where it will be seen at its regularly scheduled time. how about some votes for executive of the year in the nfl? john elway, the architect of this roster and obviously pulling off the biggest move in

the off-season, getting peyton manning to sign on the dotted line. dan: there were a lot of suitors for peyton manning. the hall of famer john elway convinced him this was the right place to be. big payoff for everybody involved. ian: knowshon moreno brought down. it will be a loss of two on the play. dan: the broncos have four wisemen. elway for getting peyton manning. john fox for putting it all together. mike mccoy and jack del rio. mccoy adjusting the offense, meshing it with peyton manning. the success he had, and then jack del rio turning around a defense. number two in the nfl against the run. that's what all coaches talk about. we have to stop the run and the broncos have done that this season. ian: third and 7. down to 2:4 to play in the fourth. hillman tripled.

he was trying to take it to the outside. ronnie hillman goes down. and it's fourth down. only one game left. a chance to sweep the division and denver will be looking for its 11th straight win to end the regular season. next week they play host to the kansas city chiefs. the cleveland browns will wrap up next week at pittsburgh in a game that could have had playoff implications but the steelers falling into the bengals earlier today so pittsburgh is out of the pittsburgh is out of the playoff race. neural speeds increasing to 4g lte. brain upgrading to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc.

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ian: torningts 60's minutes. ayodele, taylor swift, follow bid "blood bloods," "the good wife" and "the mentalist," only cbs. matt prater is on for a 41-yard field goal attempt. colquitt will hold it. aaron brewer the snapper. denver came in number two in

the nfl. 29.2 points per game. they have 34 after the field goal by prater with 1:55 left to play. let me apologize before we even do this to those in cleveland. this is not my idea. dan: it's not mine either, i guess. ian: flashback. the browns and the broncos. john elway. 98-yard touchdown drive, took 5:02, the pass to marc jackson ties the game and forces o.t. they'd win it. and then 1987 a.f.c. championship. ernest byner stripped of the ball. the broncos recovered and held on. defensive it was his idea to show that. that's whose idea it was. it was elway's idea. ian: all right, we'll go with that. please all your tweets and

emails derricked to bob man back from cbs sports. dan: i have his address -- his address too if you want it. ian: we'll see. matt prater will kick it off. this is a denver team that made the playoffs last year at 8-8. won a playoff game in a wild one against pittsburgh and then got embarrassed. there was the implications that the broncos were a playoff game but they were so far from being a super bowl team. next sunday, the nfl on cbs, double-header. we'll have action for you. playoff seeding will be at stake in the a.f.c. dan: so it's 10 in a row now for the broncos and you go back

to that san diego game on a monday night. their record was 2-3. down at halftime. looking at 2-4 and a tremendous comeback in that second half and they have not looked back since then. ian: mccoy, in for the injured weeden and mccoy is going down. dumervil, first man there for denver. dan: yeah, it's time to pad your stats and that's what dumervil is doing. a couple of sacks today. has shared a couple. watch him come around joe thomas here. the difference with dumervil and von miller is their balance. dumervil is only 5'11" so he can get underneath the long arms of joe thomas at 6'6" and use that leverage to get to the quarterback. ian: on a pass over the middle to richardson. picks up four yards on the play. don't forget, "60 minutes" is coming up immediately following

our broadcast, except on the west coast, where it will be seen at its regularly scheduled time. down to 1:04 left to playoff. flag thrown. mccoy steps up. mccoy out of trouble. colt mccoy slides just short of the 35-yard line. dan: dumer viffle jumped into the neutral zone there. -- dumervil jumped into the neutral zone there. referee: there are two fouls on the play. offside -- holding, number 66. both penalties will offset. replay third down. ian: down to 50 seconds left. so many question marks for cleveland heading into the final week. [the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated

companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [captioning made possible by cbs sports, a division of cbs broadcasting, inc.] joe banner, the new c.e.o. said the decisions will come quickly for the browns. clearly they want to get their plan in place and start executing it. dan: and if they are going to make a change, get their coach in place in a hurry. ian: on third down mccoy hit from behind as he released the football by mike adams. dan: again, a totally unblocked rusher on the quarterback. and this time mike adams, good legal shot. did not go to the head. ian: and richardson took a shot in the back of his legs and he just limped off for cleveland. the last thing they need is another issue with trent richardson, who's been dealing with that rib injury since week six. mccoy is drilled!

it's woodyard. sixth denver sack of the day. dan: watch richardson here as adams hits the quarterback. little innocent bystander there and that's a shot to that left leg. hopefully it's not too serious. offensive trent richardson finishes the day nine carries, 53 yards. three catches for 15 yards. victory formation. for denver. it's a 10-game winning streak for the denver broncos and they are still alive for the number one seed in the a.f.c.

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>> stahl: good evening. i'm lesley stahl and welcome to "60 minutes presents." tonight, in this holiday season, "an evening of music" with three of the most talented and distinctive performers we have met in the past year on "60 minutes." all of them have stories to tell, as well as songs to sing. and we begin with adele. the 24-year-old british singer is a music industry phenomenon that happens perhaps only once a generation.

adele's sophomore album has sold more than 25 million copies-- ten million in the united states alone-- and spent more weeks at number one than any album in nearly 20 years. unlike most female singers of today, she is not selling herself with runway model looks or provocative clothes, and has no gimmicks added to her music. her popularity is due simply to the strength of her voice, and the emotional connection so many people have to her music. but at the height of her album's success, vocal cord problems forced her to cancel dozens of concerts and threatened to end her young career. earlier this year, when anderson cooper interviewed adele, she revealed how her voice is doing now, and how she is handling her sudden and very unconventional rise to fame. >> adele: ( singing "rolling in

the deep" ) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> cooper: adele's music is intensely personal. she sings almost exclusively about love and the men whose love she's lost. she wrote this song, "rolling in the deep," heartbroken and angry the day after breaking up with her boyfriend. the song became the top-selling single of 2011 and catapulted her to global stardom. >> adele: the kind of level of fame that i'm dealing with now, it's obviously gotten bigger over the year, but it was overnight. literally, on a flight to new york. i landed, and i seemed to be the most talked-about artist in the world that day. >> cooper: what's that moment like? >> adele: i thought it was hilarious. ( laughs ) >> cooper: hilarious? >> adele: i thought it was funny. i wanted to be a singer forever. but it's not really my cup of tea, having the whole world know

who you are. >> cooper: it's not your cup of tea? >> adele: no. i find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that i wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. i didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit. >> cooper: you really wrote it to... to help you get over something? >> adele: yeah. so the fact that so many people are interested in that, and want to cry to it or want to feel strong to it or whatever, i find really... it's just little old me. >> cooper: there's nothing little about adele's voice or the emotion her songs convey. last year, standing almost motionless center stage, she had london's royal albert hall mesmerized. >> adele: ♪ set fire to the rain... ♪ ♪ ♪ >> cooper: this performance, which she considers one of the

best of her career, was also one of her last. when did you first start to notice a problem in your voice? >> adele: a year ago, my voice went live on air, a radio show in paris, and... >> cooper: when you say it "went," what do you mean? >> adele: it was literally like someone switched... like a click off in my throat. and it just turned off, like someone pulled a curtain over my throat. but i sounded... i'm not a soprano singer, but say if someone's singing soprano. and then listen to a baritone singer. it sounded like that. my voice went... it was so much deeper. it was... >> cooper: and... and did you know something was happening? i mean, you must have known. >> adele: yeah, yeah. and i could feel it. it felt like something popped in my throat. >> cooper: it turned out she had a polyp in her vocal cords that had also hemorrhaged. >> adele: really, i should... i should've stopped singing for six months, really, and properly rested my voice. but it's kind of impossible to do when you're in the eye of the storm. >> cooper: so you had to have surgery? >> adele: yeah. i had laser surgery, yeah. >> cooper: and what do they actually do? >> adele: put a laser down your throat, cut off the polyp, and kind of laser your hemorrhage back together and fix it. >> cooper: to help her heal, she was also ordered not to speak a word for more than a month.

that's got to be hard. >> adele: yeah. it was really hard. >> cooper: i sense you like to talk. >> adele: yeah, i love talking. ( laughter ) >> cooper: so how'd you communicate for five weeks? >> adele: by pad. i had a notepad. and i also had an application on my phone, and that you type the words into it and then it speaks it. but the great thing is i love to swear. most of them, you can't swear on, but i found this one app where you can swear. so i'm still really getting my point across. the guy that this next song's about, not enough time has gone by since he was a ( bleep ) ( bleep ) to me. >> cooper: the swearing is back; so, too, the thick cockney accent. and her confidence in her singing voice has never been higher. >> adele: i can't remember a time where it felt so smooth to sing and not be paranoid on stage, you know. >> cooper: what do you mean? >> adele: i used to always wonder, "will i hit that note?" even when i wasn't ill. it's basically a clean slate in my throat. and it's just clear. doesn't mean it would never happen again. if i decide to go on a 200-date world tour, it would happen again. >> cooper: really? >> adele: yeah, it will. you know, just the exhaustion. >> cooper: hardly anyone has heard adele sing since the surgery, so sitting with her in

a small london recording studio in january, we just couldn't resist. can you sing a little "someone like you" or...? >> adele: i can do it a cappella. >> cooper: yeah? sure. >> adele: i'm fine doing that, yeah. ♪ never mind, i'll find someone like you ♪ i wish nothin' but the best for you, too ♪ "don't forget me," i beg "i'll remember," you said ♪ sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes, it hurts instead ♪ sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead... >> cooper: "someone like you" has become another adele anthem, written about that same boyfriend who broke her heart. >> adele: ♪ never mind i'll find someone like you ♪ i wish nothin' but the best

for you, too ♪ "don't forget me," i beg "i'll remember," you said ♪ sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes, it hurts instead ♪ sometimes, it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead... >> cooper: the song is incredibly sad, and her fans cry right along to it, so much so it became a running gag on "saturday night live." >> and... play... ♪ ♪ ( laughter ) ( laughter ) >> adele: that's what i was doing when i was writing it. ( laughter ) >> cooper: she can laugh about

it now. she says she no longer feels the same way about the song or the guy she once did. >> adele: "someone like you" was about him getting engaged really quickly after we broke up. and... and i wrote that to feel better about myself, really, and it was about trying to convince myself that, "oh, we will meet someone else and i will be happy." >> cooper: and you have met someone else? >> adele: yeah. who is much better than him. ( laughter ) in fact, next time i sing "someone like you," i'm going to be, like, "never mind, i found someone, like you. please forget me." >> cooper: she found simon konecki, a british entrepreneur who also runs a charitable foundation. so you're in love now? >> adele: yeah. love it. it's great. >> cooper: your face lights up when you talk about it. >> adele: yeah. ( laughter ) >> cooper: do you think you could write without having your heart broken? >> adele: well, i hope so, because i'm madly in love and i don't want to... i don't want to be like, "babe, i'm sorry, we've got to break up. i've got a new album to deliver." ( laughs ) he'd ( bleep ) hate that. also, i can't write another breakup record. that would be a real clicheé. it would really be... it would be just like a boring running theme. i think people would be like, "no, that's enough now. cheer up." ( laughter )

for you too from my hometown ♪ >> cooper: she was born adele adkins in a working class section of north london. an only child raised by a single mom, she attended a high school for the performing arts and, just three days after graduating, was offered a recording contract. she was 18 years old. >> cooper: her debut album came out in 2008, and earned her two grammys, including best new artist. ♪ should i give up or should i just keep chaseing pavements ♪ even if they lead nowhere >> cooper: despite her success, she was concerned about losing touch with new music, so she did something unusual for a grammy winning artist. she got a part-time job sorting and labeling cds in the back of a record store. you started working here after your first album? >> adele: yeah, after the

grammys. >> cooper: ( laughs ) after you'd done the grammys? >> adele: yeah, yeah, i came and worked here for a little while. no one knows i did it here, no one knows. i just did it for myself. >> cooper: did they think it was odd that you... >> adele: yeah. >> cooper: ...came here to volunteer to work? >> adele: yeah, absolutely. very much so. they were baffled by it. >> cooper: the other baffling thing about adele is that, despite being known for the power of her live concerts, in front of audiences, she experiences near crippling stage fright. so, how does it manifest itself? >> adele: it starts from the minute i wake up. if i know i've got a show, it starts... i mean, i just try and putter around and keep myself busy and stuff like that. and then i got to go down and sit in the chair for a couple hours, have my hair and makeup done. but it has gotten worse as i'm becoming more successful, my nerves, just because there's a bit more pressure and people are expecting a lot more from me. >> cooper: so what's that fear? >> adele: that i'm not going to deliver. i'm not going to deliver. that i'm not going to... people aren't going to enjoy it. they're... they're going to... that i'll ruin their love for my songs by doing them live.

i feel sick. i get a bit panicky. >> cooper: have you ever thrown up? >> adele: yeah. oh, yeah. yeah. a few times. >> cooper: really? >> adele: yeah. projectile. yeah. because it just comes... it just comes out. it does. >> cooper: that kind of candid talk is typical adele. she is naturally generous with the details of her life. but her success is changing that. fed up with paparazzi staking out her home in london, she rented this very large but very private home in the english countryside >> adele: this here, this is just safety, this house. come on, louie. >> cooper: that's why you're out here? just because... for privacy? >> adele: yeah. >> cooper: she's learned about fame the hard way. in the past, too many personal details of her life ended up in the tabloid press. so she set traps to catch the sources. >> adele: i plant stories and see who leaks them, and then i get rid of them, yeah. >> cooper: really? so you would... you would tell them something that... >> adele: i'd tell, like, a group of people who i was suspicious of... ( laughs ) i'd tell them all a different story with different details in it, but all roughly the same story, so i could keep my eye on it. and then, when i knew it would come out, yeah, i knew who it

was. >> cooper: that's kind of depressing. >> adele: yeah, it was still... it's quite fun, as well. ( laughter ) not firing people that you love, but yeah, it's necessary. >> cooper: inside the rented mansion, there are ten bedrooms- - nine more than she needs-- and almost no furniture. >> adele: this is... this house is a bit of a clicheé, really. this bit's all quite scary, really. it was a convent for a little while. >> cooper: ever seen "the shining"? >> adele: "all work and no play." and then, this is the pool. >> cooper: wow. >> adele: do you have a pool? >> cooper: uh... no. >> adele: so these wings... ( laughs ) these wings that way and that way is empty, really. there a couple of spare bedrooms around there, and this is my suite. >> cooper: i love what you've done with the place. >> adele: i've been busy. >> cooper: she's about to get a lot busier. now that her voice has healed, demand for her to tour has never been higher. did you ever feel pressure to, "well, i got to look a certain way, i have to... >> adele: no, never. i've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been, like, "i need to look like that if i want to be a success." never. i don't want to be some skinny mini with my ( bleep ) out.

i really don't want to do it. ( laughs ) and i don't want people confusing what it is that i'm about. ( singing "rumor has it" ) ♪ ♪ i'm not shocking. i just stand there and sing. and i don't do stunts or anything. >> cooper: but i think that's one of the... the things that is so remarkable about your success, and is that you're kind of the anti-pop star. i mean, you're not... >> adele: no, i am. >> cooper: you know what i mean. i mean, there... there aren't any gimmicks. it's basically the power of... of your voice and... and what you're singing. >> adele: if i wanted to do all that, i don't think i'd get away with it. i... i just... i don't think people would believe me. >> cooper: but in your songs, i think people believe that you have experienced what you're singing about. i think that comes through. >> adele: i'm just writing love songs. i'm not trying to be pop. i'm not trying to be jazz. i'm not trying to be anything. i'm just writing love songs.

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>> stahl: like so many musicians before him, the singer/ songwriter named rodriguez came from nowhere. he was born poor in detroit and spent his life poor in detroit. in the late '60s, he cut a couple of records, and they got great reviews but went nowhere. what he didn't know, what no one in america knew, was that halfway around the world in south africa, he was more popular than elvis or the beatles. he'd never been there, and no one there knew anything about him. even when word spread that he had died, his records continued to sell. then, four years ago, a young swedish filmmaker heard about rodriguez, and decided to shoot a documentary about him. as bob simon discovered, the film is now captivating audiences across the country,

and has been short-listed for an academy award. it's released by sony pictures classics and it's called "searching for sugar man." ♪ ♪ ♪ sugar man won't you help me ♪ because i'm tired of these scenes ♪ >> simon: the film shows rodriguez's old neighborhood in downtown detroit and the smoky bar where, back in the late '60s, he was discovered by dennis coffey, a legendary motown producer. >> dennis coffey: we thought he was like the inner city poet, you know, putting his poems to music of what he saw. and it was definitely a very gritty look at what he saw on the streets of detroit. the only writer that i had heard of of that time period was maybe bob dylan, that was writing that well.

♪ ♪ ♪ lost my heart when i found it ♪ >> simon: coffey co-produced his first album, "cold fact." critics liked it, but it bombed. steve rowland was responsible for his second. it did no better. >> steve rowland: nobody in america had even heard of him. nobody... nobodyven was interested in listening to him. how can that be? how can that be? ♪ ♪ >> simon: and how could it be that no one in america knew that rodriguez had become an icon in south africa? steve segerman owns a record store in cape town. >> steve segerman: to many of us south africans, he was the soundtrack to our lives. if you walked into a random white, liberal, middle-class household that had a turntable and a pile of pop records, you would always see "cold fact" by rodriguez. to us, it was one of the most famous records of all time.

>> simon: it was the 1970s, and under apartheid, political repression was at its height. rodriguez's lyrics resonated with people who'd had it with the system. >> rodriguez: ♪ the mayor hides the crime rate ♪ councilwoman hesitates ♪ public gets irate, but forgets the vote date ♪ this system's going to fall soon ♪ to an angry young tune ♪ and that's a concrete cold fact... ♪ >> segerman: we didn't know what the word "anti-establishment" was until it cropped up on a rodriguez song. and then, we found out it's okay to protest against your society, to be angry with your society. >> simon: south africans were buying half a million of his records, and were astonished to learn that no one else in the world had ever heard of him. he was the ultimate enigma. >> segerman: then we found out that he had committed suicide. he set himself alight on stage and burnt to death in front of the audience. it was probably the most grotesque suicide in rock

history. >> simon: but there was no proof, so record store owner segerman and his friends started investigating. 25 years after hearing those records, they spotted the word "dearborn" in one of his songs. dearborn is near detroit. and, as the film shows, that's where they found rodriguez's house. ♪ ♪ and there he was, very much alive. ♪ ♪ his neighbors knew him as an odd character who walked around with a guitar. >> he was this wandering spirit around... around the city. you know, detroit's got its share of burned-out, desolate areas, and i would... i would occasionally see him... i thought he was just a... i... just not much more than a kind of a homeless person.

>> simon: but he wasn't homeless. he was the son of an immigrant worker from mexico. he'd lived in this house with a wood burning stove for 40 years. and all this time, he had been working as a day laborer-- demolition, roofing, heavy construction. he also managed to get a degree in philosophy. rodriguez didn't know his records had been selling like wildfire in south africa. he'd never seen a penny. then, in 1998, his fans invited him to tour south africa. he and his three daughters had no idea limos would be waiting for them at the airport. regan is his youngest daughter. >> regan rodriguez: i only assumed the limousines were for some dignitary or celebrity, someone that we should stay out of the way of. but instead, they were for my father. ( cheers and applause ) >> simon: regan said she expected 20, maybe 30 people to show up at his concert.

there were 5,000. and when rodriguez stepped out onto the stage, they wouldn't let him start singing, not for ten minutes. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ >> regan rodriguez: for them to see him, when they thought he had died, it was like they had a chance to see some type of resurrection. ( cheers and applause ) >> rodriguez: thanks for keeping me alive. >> simon: the beatles and the stones had played to crazed houses, too. but to these people, rodriguez was like lazarus-- he had risen from the dead. the concert wasn't just a success, it was a miracle. >> regan rodriguez: looking out in the crowd, people were singing every note, every song,

every word. ♪ ♪ i wonder ♪ wonder i do >> simon: in south africa, rodriguez finally got the adulation he'd never received at home. ( cheers and applause ) but when he got home to detroit, it was as if none of it had ever happened. he went back to doing what he'd been doing all his life. when we met him in september, he was unlike any rock star we'd ever met-- humble, unassuming, okay with working for a living. when... when both of your records bombed commercially, how shaken were you? >> rodriguez: oh, i was... bob simon, i was too disappointed to be disappointed. >> simon: people in south africa said that your music was the soundtrack of their youth. >> rodriguez: oh, yeah.

ah, well, the... well, that was... obviously, it... they picked up on my stuff, yeah, yeah. >> simon: they "picked up" on your stuff. come on, it's a lot more than that. >> rodriguez: jeez, listen to this guy. ( laughs ) go ahead, i'm listening. >> simon: i mean, that's a remarkable thing to say, that your music was the soundtrack of their youth. >> rodriguez: oh, i... it's... it's quite an honor that they picked my stuff up, yeah. i owe south africa, for sure. >> simon: and what about all those years of backbreaking labor? was that hard on you? >> rodriguez: did... well, physically, it's hard, but it's... there's no shame in hard work. >> simon: you say there's... you say there's no shame in hard work. >> rodriguez: yes, sir. >> simon: i think you also said there's no shame in being poor. >> rodriguez: that's right. and poor doesn't mean dirty and poor doesn't mean stupid and poor does not mean mean. >> simon: poverty and dignity. that was the end of his story... except it wasn't. another twist of fate was coming his way. first-time swedish filmmaker malik bendjelloul was travelling around the world looking for a

story to film. when he got to cape town, he heard about rodriguez. >> malik bendjelloul: this might be one of the best stories i ever heard. it was like cinderella or... or sleeping beauty or something like that. i... i never heard a story in my life that was so close to one of those classic fairytales, and had such a wonderful soundtrack, too. you know, it was just... i was just... i just fell in love with this story. >> simon: he then edited the film himself, composed the soundtrack himself, drew the animation himself. and then, after four years, he gave up. >> bendjelloul: i was 90% finished. i... i realized, i can't continue because i nd eefood. my clothes had, like, holes under the arms, and i couldn't afford to buy new ones. i... i needed work. >> simon: while you were making a film about a poor man, you became poor? >> bendjelloul: i became one myself. i did, yeah. i did, that's true.

>> simon: eventually, he found producers who submitted his unfinished film to the sundance film festival in utah. they not only accepted it, they decided to open the festival with it. since hitting the theaters, it has become something of a phenomenon. and rodriguez has been resurrected once again. one of his first miraculous appearances, the david letterman show. ( playing "crucify your mind" ) ♪ it made you pay the cost and there's a big loss ♪ >> simon: and now, a sold-out tour across america. here he is at the highline ballroom in new york city. it was as if he'd never left the stage. ( cheers and applause ) >> rodriguez: i love when they

scream. is there anybody here from detroit? ( applause ) my deepest condolences. ( laughter ) >> simon: he didn't mean it, of course. and his real homecoming happened at the kind of detroit joint which was in his genes. >> rodriguez: hey, youngbloods. >> i want to say hello, man. >> you're very inspiring. >> rodriguez: what's your name? >> charlie. >> i'm so excited to see you. >> awesome to meet you, man. thrilling. yes. >> a picture, too... >> rodriguez: you better hurry. >> ...because we're so excited. >> rodriguez: me, too. >> simon: and he'd been in their midst all the time. but it took 40 years for them to discover who he really was. rodriguez is 70 now and needs a little help walking. he can barely see. the world can see and hear him today as the great songwriter he's always been. but there's still one abiding

mystery. why do you think it's taken 40 years? >> rodriguez: well, i... i just wasn't meant to be so lucky then, you know. i think maybe that's it. >> simon: you know, when you left here before the film was made, you were rodriguez living in downtown detroit. now, you're "rodriguez, superstar." >> rodriguez: oh. >> simon: it has a ring to it, "rodriguez superstar." >> rodrigez: oh, no. this... well, that's nice of you to say that. it's superlatives they use. but i... we're having a good year, of course. >> simon: a good year and, at last, some money. >> regan rodriguez: he's giving person with money. he's not a selfish person. and in fact, i think it could benefit him in a way of just being able to give it away. that alone will make him feel so good. >> simon: you don't think he's going to go out there and buy a ferrari? >> regan rodriguez: ( laughs ) i don't see him buying a ferrari. i think... if anything, i'm

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